>“What we realized is there are two mechanisms that lead someone to become a SuperAger,” Weintraub said. “One is resistance: they don’t make the plaques and tangles. Two is resilience: they make them, but they don’t do anything to their brains.”

The title says what makes a superager. But the article does not say why someone has one of the two things that makes them a superager.

This is totally anecdotal, but the very old people I met who happened to have strong memories had never drunk alcohol in their lives.

Mostly fraud and a bit of poor record keeping.